As Chatham Area Trannsit moves closer to the opening of the Joe Murray Rivers Intermodal Transit Center this fall, some route changes are being implemented to transition to a new "pulse" system, in which all the buses arrive and depart the center at regular intervals.

Some of these changes will begin on Monday. The significant changewill be seen in the 14 Abercorn and 114X Express, which will start running on the Truman Parkway.

Veolia sent a statement last night regarding the Chatham Area Transit board’s decision to end its management contract with the French conglomerate.

The company's spokesperson said they were surprised and disappointed with CAT’s sudden decision to end the contract and hire their own staffer, Chadwick Reese, who has been running the transit system for about two years. Here is a link to today’s story about the matter, followed by the statement.

Chatham County cancelled a rental permit for the Tybee Island Pier and Pavilion for Orange Crush after the applicant failed to pay the full rental fee in time, according to Al Lipsey, Chatham's deputy director of public works and park services.

Gil Jones, who made the reservation, said the pavilion was no longer needed since the city turned down an event permit application in December.

Mayor Jason Buelterman sent me an email Friday apologizing for the previous night’s meeting, when I was not informed the executive session had ended and missed a 4 to 3 vote against the termination of the City Manager Diane Schleicher.Buelterman also said that he would be contacting state Attorney General Sam Olens to let him know what happened and the city would be implementing procedures to prevent such incidents from occurring again.While I would have preferred the open-meetings law be followed in the first place, it is encouraging when a government official recognizes when a mis